Drexel's Don Engel Has Died. His Tales of Wall Street, Women and Wealth Live On. - Bloomberg

Drexel Legend Spills Secrets of ‘Networked’ Women and Dealmaking

Donald Engel died at 91. Here, for the first time, are some of the stories he told, about how he “networked” women, was a confidant to CEOs and had a front-row seat to wealth and power.

Don Engel at his home in New York in 2015.Photographer: Chris Goodney

It was hard to tell what time it was inside Donald Engel’s apartment, and occasionally even what decade.

Was it morning or evening, the 2020s or the 1980s — the decade of Michael Milken’s Drexel and its infamous parties at Bungalow 8?